Advocates worry that continued resistance by some states could hinder efforts to coax many of the nation’s 50 million uninsured to sign up for coverage.

“There is a very palpable concern .?.?. that anti-Obamacare state government people will find ways to gum up the works,” said Leonardo Cuello, director of health reform for the National Health Law Program. Political foes of the health-care law are “constantly putting up barriers to progress being made,” he added.

I’ll tell you what, if anyone ever did figure out how to make some sort of federal type government where the overall part had limited powers and only did things that had to be done at the national level, and left stuff like healthcare regulation to the local level, I bet that country would take off like a rocket and become a superpower.

The NSA collected as many as many as 56,000 emails from Americans before the mistake was identified.

Mmkay.

“This is not an egregious overreaching by a greedy agency seeking to spy on Americans,” a senior intelligence official said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters. “This is a technological problem that resulted in an inadvertent collection of a relatively small number of U.S. person communications.”

By a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the commission to complete the licensing process and approve or reject the Energy Department’s application for a never-completed waste storage site at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain.

In a sharply worded opinion, the court said the nuclear agency was “simply flouting the law” when it allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the proposed waste site 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The action goes against a federal law designating Yucca Mountain as the nation’s nuclear waste repository.

“The president may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections,” Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh wrote in a majority opinion, which was joined Judge A. Raymond Randolph. Chief Judge Merrick B. Garland dissented.

This is not about Yucca Mountain. Yucca Mountain won’t go forward, because Congress won’t fund it. The court knows this.

The court also knows that this is hardly the only instance where the White House has decided that it can ignore the law if it doesn’t like it.

We have a policy that says that we don’t send military aid to countries that have been taken over in coups. In light of that, Obama refuses to call Egypt’s coup a coup. This court just told them that they can’t do that.

This case wasn’t about Yucca Mountain. This case was the warning shot about the way that this administration does everything.